Steven Levy on Becoming Steve Jobs

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Steven Levy is a terrific writer (see Insanely Great, the inside story of the birth of the Mac). This is his take on the new Steve Jobs bio, Becoming Steve Jobs.

An excellent way to learn Git

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Git is vital for developers, useful for non-developers as well. If you’ve ever heard of Git or GitHub, and felt intimidated by the interface, this is a fantastic way to learn.

A day in the life of an Apple Watch user

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Sébastien Page, writing for iDownloadBlog, flexes his imagination, sharing his take on a day spent with an Apple Watch in hand. Great imagination, really makes the Apple Watch come to life.

A lesson from Steve

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Tony Fadell, speaking at a TED conference about what he learned from Steve Jobs. Good lesson.

Apple’s mini-Rickroll

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Remember Rickrolling? Take a look at Apple’s Control Center support page.

Magic Leap

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Magic Leap is an augmented reality company, developing technology that blends computer generated imagery with reality. Take a look at the video to get a sense of what they have in mind. Cool stuff.

Which Apple Watch band should you get?

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Rene Ritchie, writing for iMore, take a variety of passes through the Apple Watch band collection, looking at things like size, weight, and closure.

Apple releases security update 2015-003

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The update involves iCloud Keychain and the IOSurface framework (for sharing graphics surfaces between applications) and is for Yosemite 10.10.2.

The inside story of how Apple’s ResearchKit was born

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Great story, not only for this fantastic bit:

After Friend’s talk, O’Reilly approached the doctor, and, in typical tight-lipped Apple fashion, said: “I can’t tell you where I work, and I can’t tell you what I do, but I need to talk to you,” Friend recalls. Friend was intrigued, and agreed to meet for coffee.

Will Apple Watch internals be upgradeable?

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One of the last unanswered questions about the Apple Watch is the question of upgradeability. Andy Faust, writing for WatchAware, argues that upgradeability is both not coming and not necessary.

Tim Cook on Steve Jobs, legacy, and Apple Watch

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Rick Tetzeli, Executive Editor of Fast Company and coauthor of Becoming Steve Jobs, had the chance to sit down with Tim Cook for a reasonably long Q&A. Presumably, this interview was done as background for the book.

The whole thing is an excellent read.